Senior Full Stack Engineer

5 days ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Black Pen Recruitment Full time

Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. They provide a suite of products to help businesses accept payments online and offline, manage their operations, and grow their business. Our client is driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

Role Overview

As a senior full-stack engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end and front-end applications that expose our client's data and functionality to internal and external users. Applications handling financial information need to be able to handle large data sets in a performant manner, while being highly accurate and reliable. You'll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build systems that support some of South Africa's best known brands.

Job Type: Full Time/Permanent

Location: South Africa

Workplace: Hybrid

Requirements

  • You have extensive programming experience in at least one language such as Javascript, Typescript, Java, C++, C#, Python or another major language
  • Working on large, distributed systems at scale
  • Understanding and working with SQL databases
  • Writing solid unit testing and integration tests
  • You communicate clearly and are able to collaborate in a remote environment
  • Taking ownership of work assigned to you
  • You have a passion for building products to help African businesses

Technology stack:

Our technology stack includes the following:

  • Typescript and Javascript
  • Frameworks: , and
  • Frontend frameworks: React, Angular and Vue
  • Redis
  • MySQL and MongoDB
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS

Responsibilities

  • Architect and Develop: Design and implement robust solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
  • Product Innovation: Design and development of technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.
  • Technical Problem Solving: Tackle complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
  • System Integration: Collaborate on the refinement of the platform's architecture, focusing on optimization and seamless integration to other systems.
  • Code Review and Testing: Review specifications and code submissions and conduct thorough testing to maintain code quality.
  • System support: Collaborate with other teams, both inside and outside engineering, to assist merchants and customers where necessary.


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